Psychology.yale.edu - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
74% 
Page quality
45% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
96% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.18 s
File size
43.50 kB
Words
318
Media files
15
Number of links
71 internal / 15 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home | Department of Psychology
The length of the page title is perfect. (307 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is missing.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://psychology.yale.edu/welcome
The specified canonical link points to a different page.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en
Alternate/Hreflang Links
(Somewhat important)
There are no alternate links specified on this page.
Other meta tags
(Somewhat important)
There is no rel next meta tag on this page.
There is no rel prev meta tag on this page.
Domain
(Somewhat important)
This page is hosted on a subdomain. Use a top level domain for better SEO results.
The domain does not contain non-latin characters.
Page URL
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No parameters were found in the URL.
No session ID was found in the URL.
The URL does not have too many subdirectories.
Charset encoding
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The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.
Doctype
(Nice to have)
The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.
The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.
Favicon
(Nice to have)
The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 318 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
20.1% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 13 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=10, minimum-scale=1, user-scalable=yes" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 6 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
13 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
Social Networks
(Nice to have)
There are only a few social sharing widgets on the page. Make your website popular in social networks with social sharing widgets.
Additional markup
(Nice to have)
No additional page markup was found.
HTTPS
(Somewhat important)
This website uses HTTPS to protect privacy and integrity of the exchanged data.
All included files are also transferred via HTTPS.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Department of Psychology
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Department of Psychology
H2 Upcoming Events
H2 News
H2 Contact Information
H3 Randolph Helfrich to join Yale Psychology faculty in summer 2025
H3 Amanda Royka awarded the 2024 Marr Prize by the Cognitive Science Society
H3 Dylan Gee receives FABBS Early Career Impact Award
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
There are 1 links with a trivial anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 15 external links on this page.
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https://psychology.yale.edu/Anchor Skip to main content
http://www.yale.edu/External Subdomain Yale University
https://psychology.yale.edu/Department of Psychology
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/people/faculty/primaryFaculty
A-TITLE Faculty of the Dept. of Psychology
/people/faculty/primaryPrimary
A-TITLE Primary Faculty of the Dept. of Psychology
/people/faculty/research-scien...Research Scientists
/people/faculty/lecturersLecturers
/people/faculty/affiliated-and...Affiliated & Visiting
/people/faculty/emeritusEmeritus
/people/faculty/all-facultyAll Faculty
/people/studentsStudents
/people/postdocsPostdoctoral Associates & Fellows
/people/department-administrationDepartment Administration
/researchResearch
A-TITLE Research Areas in the Dept. of Psychology
/research/clinical-psychologyClinical Psychology
/research/cognitive-psychologyCognitive Psychology
/research/developmental-psycho...Developmental Psychology
/research/neuroscienceNeuroscience
/research/socialpersonality-ps...Social/Personality Psychology
/graduateGraduate
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/graduate/overview-programOverview of the Program
/graduate/trainingTraining
/graduate/training/practicum-t...Practicum Training
/graduate/training/requirementsRequirements
/graduate/training/programs-studyPrograms of Study
http://catalog.yale.edu/gsas/d...New window External Subdomain Anchor Courses
/graduate/admissionsAdmissions
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/graduate/admissions/applying-...Applying
/graduate/admissions/admission...Admissions Application Overview
/graduate/admissions/financial...Financial Aid
/graduate/admissions/psycholog...Psychology Graduate School Bootcamp
/graduate/admissions/planning-...Planning on applying to our Ph.D. graduate program?
/graduate/historyHistory
/graduate/history/recent-phd-d...Recent Ph.D. Dissertation Titles
/graduate/history/psychology-d...Psychology Dept. Ph.D. Graduates
/graduate/yale-and-new-havenYale and New Haven
/graduate/diversityDiversity
/graduate/formal-requirements-...Formal Requirements & Advising Document
/undergraduate/recent-announce...Undergraduate
A-TITLE Undergraduate program
/undergraduate/recent-announce...Recent announcements from the DUS
A-TITLE Recent Announcements
/undergraduate/faqFAQ
/undergraduate/research-opport...Research Opportunities
/undergraduate/advising-inform...Advising Information
http://catalog.yale.edu/ycps/s...New window External Subdomain Requirements of the Major
http://catalog.yale.edu/ycps/s...New window External Subdomain Anchor Course Information
/undergraduate/senior-requirem...Senior Requirement Information
/undergraduate/undergraduate-m...Undergraduate Major Forms
/undergraduate/neuroscience-trackNeuroscience Track
/undergraduate/first-years-and...For First-years and Sophomores
http://catalog.yale.edu/ycps/s...External Subdomain Roadmaps for the Major & Neuroscience Track
/diversityText duplicate Diversity
A-TITLE Our Commitment to Diversity
/diversityOur Commitment to Diversity
/diversity/psychology-departme...Psychology Department Statement on Racial Equity & Justice
/diversity/statement-against-a...Statement against anti-Asian violence
/diversity/research-opportunit...Student Resources
/diversity/research-opportunit...Research Opportunities for Undergraduates
/diversity/resources-applying-...Resources for Applying to Graduate School
/diversity/student-resources/c...Campus Resources for Current Students
/diversity/commitment-diversit...Diversity in Our Clinical Training
/diversity/commitment-diversit...Commitment to Diversity in Clinical Training and Practice
/diversity/diversity-clinical-...Diversity in Clinical Opportunities
/diversity/resources-clinical-...Resources for Clinical Training
/diversity/about-psychology-de...Committee on Diversity and Inclusiveness
/diversity/yale-psychology-dep...Committee on Racial Equity & Justice
https://brainimaging.yale.edu/External Subdomain Imaging
/opportunitiesOpportunities
/resourcesResources
/eventsMore Events
/eventsSubdomain Trivial anchor text
here
/news/randolph-helfrich-join-y...Randolph Helfrich to join Yale Psychology faculty in summer 2025
/news/amanda-royka-awarded-202...Amanda Royka awarded the 2024 Marr Prize by the Cognitive Science Society
/news/dylan-gee-receives-fabbs...Dylan Gee receives FABBS Early Career Impact Award
https://psychology.yale.edu/newsMore news...
/planning-applying-our-phd-gra...Subdomain Text duplicate Planning on applying to our Ph.D. graduate program?
/receiving-shipping-informationNew window Subdomain Mailing Address:
https://gsas.yale.edu/admissionNew window External Subdomain Graduate School Online Application
http://www.yale.edu/External Subdomain Yale
https://usability.yale.edu/web...External Subdomain Accessibility at Yale
http://www.yale.edu/privacy-po...External Subdomain Privacy policy
https://www.facebook.com/YaleU...External Subdomain Facebook
http://www.twitter.com/yaleExternal Subdomain Twitter
http://www.flickr.com/photos/y...External Subdomain Flickr
http://itunes.yale.edu/External Subdomain iTunes
http://www.youtube.com/yaleExternal Subdomain YouTube

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://psychology.yale.edu/"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is excellent with 0.18 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (44 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 1,802 referring domains.
This page has 4,834 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,024 different ip addresses.

Robots.txt

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Allow: /misc/*.css?
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Allow: /profiles/*.css?
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Allow: /themes/*.css$
Allow: /themes/*.css?
Allow: /themes/*.js$
Allow: /themes/*.js?
Allow: /themes/*.gif
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Allow: /themes/*.jpeg
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Disallow: /misc/
Disallow: /modules/
Disallow: /profiles/
Disallow: /scripts/
Disallow: /themes/
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Disallow: /CHANGELOG.txt
Disallow: /cron.php
Disallow: /INSTALL.mysql.txt
Disallow: /INSTALL.pgsql.txt
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Disallow: /install.php
Disallow: /INSTALL.txt
Disallow: /LICENSE.txt
Disallow: /MAINTAINERS.txt
Disallow: /update.php
Disallow: /UPGRADE.txt
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
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Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /comment/reply/
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Disallow: /node/add/
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Disallow: /user/register/
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Disallow: /?q=user/password/
Disallow: /?q=user/register/
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psychology.yale.edu
Home | Department of Psychology

Most important keywords

Following keywords were found. You can check the keyword optimization of this page for each keyword.

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Psychology79%Check
Psychology Department72%Check
Yale Psychology67%Check
Department62%Check
clinical psychology58%Check
Yale52%Check
Yale New45%Check
Yale University43%Check
Helfrich40%Check
Amanda40%Check

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